We started this blog back in 2016 to help us think through the highs and lows of parenting through the liberating lens of the gospel.
It was to serve us in our parenting, and hopefully to serve other parents in theirs.
It was to come second to the actual parenting of our children – at the time that was just one little guy aged 1!
But with the passing of time came the addition of 2 other precious children and a whole lot of extra mess, noise and along with it – joy.
Our children have had the audacity to grow bigger, and since those early days of writing gospel-centred parenting, our then rambunctious toddler has morphed into a comic-writing, book-loving, spiderman acrobat- impersonating 7 year old.
Our sleepy little rainbow baby is still dinky for his age, but he makes up for it in speed, agility and competitive spirit – think roadrunner and you can picture him! He’s 5 now and has a belly laugh which infects a room.
Our youngest didn’t exist when we started this blog – not even in utero. But God added her into the mix of our family. She’s been delighting us with her humour, her unbridled enjoyment of life and her affectionate nature ever since. Our baby isn’t really a baby anymore – she’s a big girl of 3.
Our family has grown. God’s been so merciful and gracious to us by entrusting these precious little people to us to parent.
There’s been countless moments of laughter and joy, and along with it frustrations, pain and sin.
But the good news of the Gospel still remains true and good.
God meets us in our family’s brokenness, he has died for our sin, he has given us his Holy Spirit to live new lives for him. He enables us to confess our sin and walk in the path of forgiveness, freedom and renewal. He gives us the exciting task of teaching the gospel story to our children and showing them how to work that our in real life.
We’ve been busy parenting, but we haven’t been busy writing about it for the blog.
While we remain excited about and desirous of blogging for gospel centred parenting, we’ve also just been a bit busy!
So we wanted to update you on what’s been going on.
Like lots of families the pandemic caused us to rethink our priorities and seek God’s guidance for future decisions.
In the last couple of years we’ve;
- Moved house
- Deregistered our children to home educate them
- Scott’s reduced his days doing domiciliary optometry in care homes to set up his own company testing children’s eyes in Special schools – Had numerous sources of stress and suffering with family members from the extended family (bereavement, cancer and other challenging situations)
- Continue to enjoy leading and serving in our local church, figuring out what that looks like post-pandemic
- Developed new interests – including gardening and writing. It looks like a published children’s book is in the pipeline for Scott, and Cathy has been contributing to a family travel blog in exchange for some fun outings.
We’re so grateful for God’s sustaining hand in our lives through the transitions and times of stress and heartache.
We’re grateful to him for the glorious gift of his son Jesus Christ, who loved us and gave himself up for us.
We’re thankful to you for following us in our journey of blogging and walking with Jesus through this season of parenting.
Thank you so much for sticking around, even though it’s been a bit quiet on here recently…